death care

Kentucky passes Covid liability shield law for funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2021 /

There has been a lot of talk at the federal level about creating a limit to liability law for those essential businesses that had to operate over the timeline of the Covid-19 pandemic while knowledge of the virus was becoming better and better every day.  The thought process has been that businesses should not be…

Read More

Restorative art thru 3D printing

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2021 /

If you have been a funeral director and did prep room work for any length of time you are aware that there are some situations where you will question that you can get the deceased back to an acceptable level of appearance for a casketed viewing. I will be honest and tell you that while…

Read More

The month’s top stories and more

By Funeral Director Daily / April 16, 2021 /

It is the middle of April and time for us to bring you a list of the top read stories on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days.  We know many of you are too busy to check in every day and this new feature lets you take a binge look at what you…

Read More

On looking back. . . and moving forward (Part 2)

By Funeral Director Daily / April 16, 2021 /

We told you yesterday that Carriage Services CEO and Chairman Mel Payne had published a lengthy Letter to Shareholders in early April.   In that letter, that you can access here, he painted what we call a somewhat aspirational future for Carriage Services, after first pointing out how they got to where they are today. Today,…

Read More

Weigel on marketing

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2021 /

I get plenty of commentary and critiques on my opinions in Funeral Director Daily.  Most of them are justified and most of them are constructive in their suggestions.  Funeral Director Daily recently did an article on marketing and social media — you can find that article here. Shortly after publishing that article I received an…

Read More

On looking back. . . .and moving forward (Part 1)

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2021 /

Earlier this month Carriage Services CEO and Chairman Mel Payne put out a lengthy shareholder letter.  We found it a great read, not only to catch up with what is happening with Carriage Services, but as an aspirational blueprint, that if followed could lead to success in almost all funeral homes.  Payne even points out…

Read More

The public perception. . . discretion vs. transparency

By Funeral Director Daily / April 14, 2021 /

Many times discretion is warranted.  I know that there were lots of times in my life as a funeral director where I didn’t volunteer information.  It could have been with an accident victim or some other issue where I thought that the next of kin knowing the answer was worse than them not knowing and…

Read More

Independent operators. . . . .know your value

By Funeral Director Daily / April 13, 2021 /

Back in 1990 I spent about three days north of Vancouver, British Columbia, along the Campbell River fishing for salmon with a group of funeral industry people.  One of the days was spent in a small fishing boat with a gentleman about thirty years my senior who had spent almost his entire funeral service career…

Read More

Who are your customers. . . where do you find them?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 12, 2021 /

I recently looked at two surveys of the American public, digested what I was reading, and then decided that these surveys give a great deal of information to marketing departments of death care businesses.  However, it will be in extrapolating that data and putting it to use in your marketing plan that the “artistry of…

Read More

Will inflation affect your operations

By Funeral Director Daily / April 9, 2021 /

If you have followed my writings for any length of time you know that I look to emerging trends to get a “gut feel” on what is going to be happening in the business world.  Getting that gut feel doesn’t always lead to making fundamental business decisions, but it does lead me to continue watching…

Read More

Subscribe to Funeral Director Daily
Enter your email address to join 3,502 readers who subscribe to all Funeral Director articles.

advertise here banner